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Passive voice

Definition

Grammar structure

Examples

We use it when we focus in what happens to someone or something

The doer of the action is less important

Object + be + past participle + (by + subject)

The important is who or what receives the action

If we want to use a modal verb, we just put it before the verb to be

With modal verbs

Without modal verbs

-Calculators can be used on the exam

Loud music can't be played after 11 pm

-The rules may be forgotten quickly by the students

- All the documents were destroyed in a fire

-The piano is played by the boy

-Stonehenge was built 5000 years ago